Materializing New Media

Materializing New Media
Author: Anna Munster
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2011-11-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1611682940

A significant contribution to investigations of the social and cultural impact of new media and digital technologies

Materializing New Media

Materializing New Media
Author: Anna Munster
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1584655585

A significant contribution to investigations of the social and cultural impact of new media and digital technologies

Materializing Memory in Art and Popular Culture

Materializing Memory in Art and Popular Culture
Author: Laszlo Muntean
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2016-12-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1315472155

Memory matters. It matters because memory brings the past into the present, and opens it up to the future. But it also matters literally, because memory is mediated materially. Materiality is the stuff of memory. Meaningful objects that we love (or hate) function not only as aide-mémoire but are integral to memory. Drawing on previous scholarship on the interrelation of memory and materiality, this book applies recent theories of new materialism to explore the material dimension of memory in art and popular culture. The book’s underlying premise is twofold: on the one hand, memory is performed, mediated, and stored through the material world that surrounds us; on the other hand, inanimate objects and things also have agency on their own, which affects practices of memory, as well as forgetting. Chapters 1, 4, and 5 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 3.0 license.

Materializing Difference

Materializing Difference
Author: Péter Berta
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2019-04-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1487520409

How do objects mediate human relationships, and possess their own social and political agency? What role does material culture - such as prestige consumption as well as commodity aesthetics, biographies, and ownership histories - play in the production of social and political identities, differences, and hierarchies? How do (informal) consumer subcultures of collectors organize and manage themselves? Drawing on theories from anthropology and sociology, specifically material culture, consumption, museum, ethnicity, and post-socialist studies, Materializing Difference addresses these questions via analysis of the practices and ideologies connected to Gabor Roma beakers and roofed tankards made of antique silver. The consumer subculture organized around these objects - defined as ethnicized and gendered prestige goods by the Gabor Roma living in Romania - is a contemporary, second-hand culture based on patina-oriented consumption. Materializing Difference reveals the inner dynamics of the complex relationships and interactions between objects (silver beakers and roofed tankards) and subjects (Romanian Roma) and investigates how these relationships and interactions contribute to the construction, materialization, and reformulation of social, economic, and political identities, boundaries, and differences. It also discusses how, after 1989, the political transformation in Romania led to the emergence of a new, post-socialist consumer sensitivity among the Gabor Roma, and how this sensitivity reshaped the pre-regime-change patterns, meanings, and value preferences of prestige consumption.

An Aesthesia of Networks

An Aesthesia of Networks
Author: Anna Munster
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2013-05-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0262313510

The experience of networks as the immediate sensing of relations between humans and nonhuman technical elements in assemblages such as viral media and databases. Today almost every aspect of life for which data exists can be rendered as a network. Financial data, social networks, biological ecologies: all are visualized in links and nodes, lines connecting dots. A network visualization of a corporate infrastructure could look remarkably similar to that of a terrorist organization. In An Aesthesia of Networks, Anna Munster argues that this uniformity has flattened our experience of networks as active and relational processes and assemblages. She counters the “network anaesthesia” that results from this pervasive mimesis by reinserting the question of experience, or aesthesia, into networked culture and aesthetics. Rather than asking how humans experience computers and networks, Munster asks how networks experience—what operations they perform and undergo to change and produce new forms of experience. Drawing on William James's radical empiricism, she asserts that networked experience is assembled first and foremost through relations, which make up its most immediately sensed and perceived aspect. Munster critically considers a range of contemporary artistic and cultural practices that engage with network technologies and techniques, including databases and data mining, the domination of search in online activity, and the proliferation of viral media through YouTube. These practices—from artists who “undermine” data to musicians and VJs who use intranetworked audio and video software environments—are concerned with the relationality at the core of today's network experience.

Materializing Poverty

Materializing Poverty
Author: Erin B. Taylor
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2013-10-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0759124221

Poverty is generally defined as a lack of material resources. However, the relationships that poor people have with their possessions are not just about deprivation. Material things play a positive role in the lives of poor people: they help people to build social relationships, address inequalities, and fulfill emotional needs. In this book, anthropologist Erin Taylor explores how residents of a squatter settlement in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, use their material resources creatively to solve everyday problems and, over a few decades, radically transform the community. Their struggles show how these everyday engagements with materiality, rather than more dramatic efforts, generate social change and build futures.

Materializing Identities in Socialist and Post-Socialist Cities

Materializing Identities in Socialist and Post-Socialist Cities
Author: Jaroslav Ira
Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2017
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 8024635909

This volume deals with the materialization of identity in urban space. Urban spaces played an important role in the formation of national identities in post-socialist successor states, whereas the articulation of national identities markedly affected the appearance of the post-socialist cities. Opened by an overview of the research on (post)socialist cities in recent urban history, the book traces the post-socialist intertwining of space and identities in case studies that include Astana and Almaty, Chisinau and Tiraspol, and Skopje, while also linking it to the socialist urbanism, exemplified by the case study on postwar Minsk.

Materializing Digital Futures

Materializing Digital Futures
Author: Toija Cinque
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2022-01-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1501361279

Digital, visual media are found in most aspects of everyday life, from workplaces to household devices - computer and digital television screens, appliances such as refrigerators and home assistants, and applications for social media and gaming. Each technologically enabled opportunity brings an increasingly sophisticated language with the act of pursuing the intrasensorial ways of perceiving the world around us - through touch, movement, sound and vision - that is the heart of screen media use and audience engagement with digital artifacts. Drawing on digital media's currently evolving transformation and transforming capacity this book builds a story of the multiple processes in robotics and AI, virtual reality, creative image and sound production, the representation of data and creative practice. Issues around commodification, identity, identification, and political economy are critically examined for the emerging and affecting encounters and perceptions that are brought to bear.

Materializing Gender in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Materializing Gender in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Author: Heidi A. Strobel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1351558870

Art history has enriched the study of material culture as a scholarly field. This interdisciplinary volume enhances this literature through the contributors' engagement with gender as the conceptual locus of analysis in terms of femininity, masculinity, and the spaces in between. Collectively, these essays by art historians and museum professionals argue for a more complex understanding of the relationship between objects and subjects in gendered terms. The objects under consideration range from the quotidian to the exotic, including beds, guns, fans, needle paintings, prints, drawings, mantillas, almanacs, reticules, silver punch bowls, and collage. These material goods may have been intended to enforce and affirm gendered norms, however as the essays demonstrate, their use by subjects frequently put normative formations of gender into question, revealing the impossibility of permanently fixing gender in relation to material goods, concepts, or bodies. This book will appeal to art historians, museum professionals, women's and gender studies specialists, students, and all those interested in the history of objects in everyday life.

Materializing the Bible

Materializing the Bible
Author: James S. Bielo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2023-03-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1350260258

Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Section I: Variations on Replication -- Chapter 1: 1:1 -- Chapter 2: Miniaturizing -- Chapter 3: Reenacting -- Chapter 4: Imagineering -- Chapter 5: Plastic Jesus -- Chapter 6: Ways of Remaining -- Section II: The Power of Nature -- Chapter 7: Flora -- Chapter 8: Fauna -- Chapter 9: Ingesting the Word -- Chapter 10: How Stones Do Things -- Section III: Choreographing Experience -- Circulation -- Chapter 11: Miracles and Lavatories -- Chapter 12: Greetings From . . . -- Chapter 13: Like-able Me, Like-able There -- Design -- Chapter 14: In Place, In Motion -- Chapter 15: Interactivity -- Chapter 16: Engulfed I -- Chapter 17: Engulfed II -- Classification -- Chapter 18: In the Garden -- Chapter 19: Rev. Ruth's Yard Poetics -- Chapter 20: Four Crosses Over Waterbury -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.